jgill

Backtracks| https://backtracks.fm/?ref=hn | Product & Engineering | Austin, TX, USA | Full Time | ONSITE

Backtracks helps audio content creators and brands know and grow their audience and revenue. We build delightful software for podcasts and spoken word audio.

Roles:

* Mid-Senior Front-end Software Developer https://www.workable.com/j/29D360401E

* Senior Python Developer https://www.workable.com/j/6250CAA462

You should know that we don't eat lunch at our desks. It's important enough to put here. We trust you to get your work done and don't micromanage a highly talented and professional team. Backtracks is a "Get Things Done" culture that deeply cares about our team, partners, and changing the world of spoken world audio. We value mastery, talent, and a good sense of humor.

Benefits:

- Equity

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance

- Flexible vacation policy; take time when you need it

- Flex-work; ability to work from home or remote at times that fit with life

- 401k

- Annual company retreat

- Subscription to a consumer audio service

- Choose your own laptop

- Audio gear allowance

Direct link: https://blog.ycombinator.com/peter-reinhardt-on-finding-prod...

Here it is directly linked to hear/read that section: https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-challenges-a-repeat-founder...

What's your podcast by the way?

What about Python 3.6 support for ElasticBeanstalk?

The text is up and part of the audio as well.

I could not help but think that if The Economist wrote an article about the same topic that the title would have included the pun "The Secret Gardner."

Thanks for the new things to check out!

What are some of your favorite more technical podcasts?

Curious about the HN community's thoughts on this self-driving car AI conundrum.

There's a vampire association in here somewhere...

Purchased your book in a show of support of your work (your HN username made me smile a little too).

What is your company? Is it a product we'd use here?

What I'm thinking of may or may not become part of OpenStack, but it is most certainly in Go.

Some of the performance sensitive new Rackspace (likely eventual OpenStack software) are in Go from their Austin (not San Antonio) office.

Ha, our inner pun masters are in alignment.

Hi dogstraightup, This is just a suggestion, but try posting contact information here or a link to it so that potential candidates that have read your post could get on your radar.

I second that that C# and the .NET platform are a joy to work with. If you've never given them a shot, you may be pleasantly surprised.

A very welcome addition.

Thanks, I'm going to read it with a skeptical but open mind.

This is a really good link to share. Thanks, I also ordered Thinking, Fast and Slow the book because of this posting and the comments. This thread has been pretty interesting to me even from an "at speed of thought" perspective.

Certainly in lower levels of education, "fast" thinking against known problems and problemsets is the norm (at least in the United States). I worked with a few "fast" thinkers that fell into a strange, at the time to me, category of people that I could recognize as intelligent and could solve a certain class of issue or problem easily, but when it came to a more difficult problem space or perhaps one that requires delayed gratification (or no real external recognition/validation/praise) they would give up. The "deep" thinkers seemed to give equal or near equal weight to the validity of options in many cases. There's a time, place, and type of problem that can benefit from each mode of thinking.

I'd be curious to interview one or more of these musicians for an immigration site/startup blog.

The specific Cloudfare link that you have is to the ZenDesk helpcenter platform.

Pretty neat! With a better search it would be an even nicer free stock photo aggregator.

You need to really analyze your requirements. Why do you want/need a message queue and not a database? Do you need to support message durability, clustering of nodes, nodes in different geographical regions, topical subscriptions, what kind of routing concerns, technology support (do you want/need to write your own client to interface with the message queue? hopfully not...if you're using a particular language you just might though), protocol support (do you need amqp support), etc.?

Personally I like RabbitMQ.

Great talented people can be live in any country and by any means I think the world is interested in interesting things created by talented people. The short version...please do.

I thought of Polyglot by AirBnB when I first saw this post, https://github.com/airbnb/polyglot.js

I would second this. Imagine you can self-fund a successful company, there is no reason for your company to go public if you are profitable and generating revenue unless that in turn generates more income. This is a great for the owners of the company if you never have to take outside funding, but imagine that you have options in a company that never needs or wants to go public. Sure they can get you to work hard for a few years under the illusion of going public, but without a forcing function like a well timed exit there is no way those options will possibly be worth anything.

So by taking outside VC equity based funding an entrepreneur is signaling that they can raise money if needed, that if the company works out there's a chance the non-founders will make money, and that the founders can deal with the pressure VCs will put on them and the company to perform [and yes that can sometimes mean ousting the founder(s)] and produce an exit event.

Given that multiple people have mentioned getting a good contract / attorney.

Anyone have a good example or contract that could be customized, e.g. a starting point that is usable?